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Reviews by TinusTime:

3.76/5 rDev +3%look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours a nice rich coppery colour with a fairly nice just off white head. Aroma is oddly muted. A hint of sweetness and hops, but just a whiff. Taste is nice a nice bread crust maltyness at the front then enough hops to dry the beer out. Some orange citrus in the hops but not an abundance of it. Not over hopped, this is not for those seeking a hop blast. This is a more subtle beer more East Coast or English in style. Very nice mouthfeel. Maybe a bit thin, but nothing to take off for. Drinkability is high. This would and did make an excellent session beer. I think this one gets over looked in the Dominion line up. But then going against Tuppers and New River is a challenge

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A real nice pour,a nice rich orange with a slightly orange tints creamy head,aroma is a little grassy and resiny from an abudance of hops.Taste a nice dry malt backbone with a healthy dose of citriusy hops coming thru through the finish a hint of caramel sweetness as well. I gave this higher marks than many of my fellow BA's a real nice brew.

Appears copper hazed amber with a an off white bubbly cream colored head initially very massive only to dwindle down to a collar of lace that leaves specks sporatically with each sip. Aroma has a bready malt characteristic with nut tones sweet cereal brown sugar notes and some floral hops to round out this pale ale. Flavor is a bit tame compared to aroma bittering hops however are more dominant than I expected. Side kick flavors are those bready cereal malts with a nut tone with a sweet edge to it. Mouthfeel is a light to medium body with some nice natural carbonation carrying all of this beers tame but well balanced flavors. Drinkability of this brew I would keep to a couple seems halfway through the beer I am getting a little gasy with hop belches, probably a great beer to have on tap at Old Dominion to try but not one I will revisit time and time again.

Arrived a copper honey colored beneath a thin whitish head, that left a thin but decent lacing on itself.

A light bitter hops aroma leads into a very nice warming hops taste, i really liked the hops taste this beer has.

A light dry with a slight hop hint aftertaste.

I don't know if this beer is that good or if I've just been drinking some IPA's and pale ales, etc. with lower taste quality while I was in the DC area, but this was by far the best hops taste I've had in the last week while I was enjoying the area.

To memory, this is the darkest pale ale I've ever seen, a red-orange in color. The off-shite head settles to about half a finger and fades somewhat quickly but never completely. Spotty lacing is left in moderation.In the aroma I find an interesting sweetness, grains character and yeast blend. Going underneath, there's an obvious caramel malt component balanced by citrus and floral hops notes.When I take my first sip, it tastes like I just ate a piece of pumpernickel bread; it's uncanny, really. After it's sat for a few minutes, more comes out, but the bread-like malts presence is massive, underneath which are caramel and nutty flavors also derived from the malts and a healthy addition of citrus and floral hops with a little bit of pine character as well.The mouthfeel is mostly crisp with some smoothness coming through in about a medium body, getting creamier as it warms. Something about it, though, seems a little shallow, like there's not much going on if not for the carbonation.This is a very nice paleale and I'm glad I found this beer from a brewery I'd never heard of before.

It pours a light amber color, perhaps a bit too much carbonation. Citrus dominates the nose: grapefruit and lemon. Some roasted malts and caramel in there and a slight grassiness. The taste starts with the malts and the sweetness with a slight hop bitter finish. The wheat grassiness kind of lingers a bit long, but it's not terribly distracting. It's not a bad beer.

Date: 12 January 2013...Glassware: Yuengling pint...Occasion: Playoff football--no Browns, but oh well...Appearance: nice burnt orange, vibrantly bubbling body supporting a creamy single-finger, off-white head...Aroma: soft, buttery nut scent; almost popcorn (corny?) overtones; hops are so subtle they are not noticeable...Taste: almost balanced, with a slightly off-centered malt profile; not nutty, buttery, or descript...Palate: medium-bodied, crunchy at the teeth; foamy...Overall: Not really a "mountain" of hops, and unlike the label's boast, not really a declaration of hop love either...serviceable, but not neearly as appealing as other pales...

Appearance: Lighter orange and brown color with a slightly fluffy head that slinks down toward the body and leaves some minor clumps on the glass.

Smell: Hop Mountain, eh? There are some hops here, but I guess I expected this to be an IPA and not a Pale. Lighter citrus and slight hop bitterness, a bit of breadiness. Balanced, but I was hoping for more.

Taste: Easy to drink, but I did expect more hops and more flavor overall, as everything's subdued. A bit of earthy hops and citrus and some bread dough, but again, this could be more interesting.

Pours out a clear amber beer , highly carbonated , with a 2 finger head. Surprisingly clear for an ale.Smells moderately of earthy hops. Amazingly light on flavor. Of course its leaning toward the hops, but not much malt flavro is apparent. Slightly tart taste that lingers a bit . Mouthfeel is just ok. Drinkability is average.

i assume this is for the new green labeled HOP MOUNTAIN though it would seem the "pale ale" is another Dominion brew...

anyways, looks great. deep amber/bright orange with excellent lacing and a head that remains and settles then fades nicely.

the nose is a little bit, no, alot of things...butteriness, the citrus punch...seems oily (and i like that)...but blended well. the malts seem to be hiding, but that's ok, too.

nothing held back in the taste. a nice bitter hoppy blast but the malt backbone as expected rather keeps things balanced (as opposed to toning anything down). quite similar to the SN Torpedo. at least this first taste. there is something oilier, more pungent, more flowery coming through. simply excellent. and unique enough.

good mouthfeel, carbonation a bit high on the finish, but that keeps it crisp and refreshing. as buttery/oily as it seems, it is actually thin. not a bad thing. keeps things from getting cloying.

Its slightly hazy copper-orange body is topped by a creamy ivory head that holds very well and leaves some really nice lace. The nose offers caramelish malt and bright floral, citrusy and piney hops. The body is medium; and it's crisp on the tongue with a very fine, median carbonation that becomes lightly creamy towards the end of the glass. Citrusy (lemon) hop dominate the flavor up-front before warming across the palate to reveal its carameilsh and biscuity malt. A bold bitterness leaves it quite dry with some short lingering malt and hops in the aftertaste. A solid pale ale across the board.

The Hop Mountain from Old Dominion is a GOOD pale ale. This pale ale is more English style leaning...but very tasty. The beer poured a nic clear amber with thin white head that is leaving a fine lace. The acent carries fresh hop with a slight citrus flare. The taste is a nicely balanced beer between sweet malt and bitter, with slight citrus, hop. The mouthfeel is between light and medoum body with good carbonation. Overall this is a solid offering from old dominion....nice job!